Shirt attachment



Aug. 30, 1927. 1,641,008

O. G. l. OHEIR SHIRT ATTACHMENT Filed Jan. 8; 19.25 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 -INVENTOR.

Aug. '30 1927. 1,641,008 I o. G. l. ojHElR SHIRT ATTACHMENT Filed Jan. 8, 1925 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Patented Aug. 39, 192.7.

hearse srarss OCTAVIAN G. I. OHEIR, OF LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS.

SHIRT ATTACHMENT.

Application filed January 8, 1925. Serial No. 1,184.

This invention relates to shirts such as are worn by men, and its purpose is to prevent the skirts from crawling up where the wearer is engaged in more or less active exercise, and particularly where a belt is worn.

Its purpose is generally to keep down the bottom of a shirt, and by skirt in this specification, I mean to include any shirt. like garment such, for instance, as a shirt waist.

In the drawings, Fig. 1 is an elevation of a shirt, of the open front type, opened showing my device in place.

Fig. 2 is a front elevation showing the lower part of ashirt, with the legs of the wearer indicated.

Fig. 3 is a rear elevation similar to Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a side elevation with parts of the shirt broken away to show the way it is attached.

Fig. 5 is a detail on an enlarged scale showing a band in place. I

Fig. 6 is a front view of the shirt buttoned up, with the front skirts removed and indicated'by dotted lines.

Fig. 7 is a detail of a preferred form of attaching loop.

Fig. 8 is a detail of paralleled slit-s forming a passage which takes the place of a loop.

F ig- 9 is a detail of part of a band without the enlarged portionJ Fig. 10 is a. modification.

In the drawings, A represents the buttocks, B, B, the legs of the wearer, and S represents the shirt as a whole, while M represents one of my bands.

The shirt S, as shown, isopen at the front 14, which is closed when in use, by suitable buttons 17. It is split at the lower part on each side at 15 and 16, forming the rear skirt 12 and the front bifurcated skirts, 10 and 11.

In positions on the inside of the skirts 10, 11 and 12, where they will be near the upper part of the thigh of the wearer, are loops. The loops 22 and 23 are inside skirt 11 and the loops 20 and 21 inside skirt 10, The loops 24, 25, 27 and 26 are inside skirt 12. i

My preferred form of band M includes a and 32 is a tying string 33 or 34 by which the ends can be brought together.

There are preferably two of these bands,

in each of which the elastic middle part is passed through loops 23, 24:, 25, or 21,

26, 27, or it may pass through four loops, in any event bringing an enlarged part or stop 31 or 32 in such position outside of different loops that it will be held in position when the shirt is removed. As shown in Fig. 5 the string 31 is passed through loop 22. I As shown in Fig. at the ends 33 and 34 are brought around the leg near the top of the thigh, and tied, preferably in a bow knot.

The result of this is that when the wearer bends, or when for any other cause the skirts tend to lift they will be brought back by the elasticity of the part 30 and will always return to position.

Each loop such as 23 may be a separate piece of material attached by sewing 40 and 4.1, whereby a passage is formed, or as shown in Fig. 8 a passage may be formed by making two parallel slits 51 and52 in a skirt 50, through which a band M may be passed.

As shown in Fig. 9 the band may be made without anyv enlarged portions, the elastic part 60 terminating at each end in a tying string 61.

His also obvious that the whole band such as M could be elastic if desired, or it could all be non-elastic.

The tapered end 62 of 60 serves as a stop if the loop 64: is attached to shirt 63 by stitching 65 and 66 which is close enough together to prevent 60 from passing, but far enough apart to allow string 61 to pass.

As shown in Fig. 10, a single loop 70 attached to shirt 71 might be used and a band 72 of uniform material and size might be n'iighl; he elastic or inehisliic iinil ioop '70 might be elastic oiinelastic.

If bond '72 is inelastic and, loop 70 BlfiS- tic, its elasticity will bring the shirt hack in place but it will not he {15% (lni'nhie :is on inelastic loop on occonni: oi laundering.

I ehiim:

1. The combination with 21 shii'li having skirts in which are inside on each eiclo :i plurality of loops ii'orniing passage; of two bands each of which p: lhi'ongli :1 p1ui'olity of loops and each which is iiOlHlQLi of a central Qiflfitifi portion which lei'n'iinotes at each end in on enhii'neii portion and a tying String which BXlQlKlrri hevoin'l ench oi said enlarged portions.

2. The coinhinnl'ion Willi o i-ihii't having skirts in which are on each ehle :i phii'zilily of loops forming;- PGFSHQ'QS; of ino hands each oi which PZISSOS through :i plurality of loops and each oi": which is formed of 1 central elastic portion which l'cirniinzil'eo it each removahly passed l'll'lffiliflll it. Band '79 end in an enlarged portion and :1 tying:

string which extends beyond each of said enlarged portions.

3. The combination with. 21 shirt hzn 'ing skii'l's in which there are on each side, inside, a plin'oii'ty oil? loops 'liOi'l'lliDg pnssngeo; oi two bands each oi? which passes through a, plurality of loops and each of which is formed of an elastic central portion which terminates at each end, in :i stop lo hold each hand in position with ielzilion to will poseno'eo and n lxyino' hiring.

The conihinniiion with. n, Slillfl? having shii'is in which illkl'O are on (inch wide :1 plnialii'y of pnnsnoee: oi two lldiitlfi ezivh oil? which pnneoo l'hionofh :1 plni'nliliy oi px1ssages and each oil which in formed. oi? ii centrail POIiiOi] which terminates at onch end in n Stop lo hold each hand in position with relation to enic l passages and a tying" string of lees Wirll'h than the central portion.

OCTAVTAN G. I. OHEIR. 

